“20 Million people Will be receiving 20 Billion to support poor and vulnerable households” – Federal Government increases National cash transfer programs.

The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced that two million people will start receiving about N20bn from June 2022 to support poor and vulnerable households.

This was announced by Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq.

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Mrs. Farouq unleashed that ten million people to be paid N5,000 each under the basic cash transfer and an additional N5,000 under the conditional cash transfer under the National Cash Transfer Programme in June 2022, totaling about 20 billion nairas.

Sadiya Farouq shared that the number of people who will benefit from this scheme would increase further in June 2022.

The minister disclosed this in a March 2022 document on the strategic roadmap and activities of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development.

The report stated that the Federal Government supports poor and vulnerable households with cash monthly.

The statement reads:

“By June 2022 we would be paying two million people N5,000 basic cash transfer and an additional N5,000 on conditional cash transfers, which is conditioned on good health-seeking, behavior, school retention, and good water and hygiene conditions in their environment/homes.

To date, of this one million targeted by the government, we have been able to pay the sum of N5000 to 850,000 beneficiaries digitally through the Nigeria Inter-bank Settlement System, where each account is carefully validated,”.